I hate that song, but now this submission has it stuck in my head. Damn hippies!
Arugadh of
The Seekers of Truth on Farstriders (US-A) writes, "At the end of the goblin's starting story, Thrall tells Gallywix that the Goblin people have the ability to transform Azeroth. But given that Thrall is now a shaman, I don't think that this is what Thrall meant. The once mighty green jungles of Stranglethorn are now felled to goblin greed; what Deathwing didn't finish, the goblins seem to intend to. I paused while flying over STV, saw the clear-cut rainforest, and felt saddened at the waste and death of the green." Oh, so now we're supposed to listen to the environmental concerns of the freaking
dwarves?
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Apr 29th 2011 at 10:00AM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MattKrotzer Apr 29th 2011 10:10AM
Trying to find a place to downvote Elizabeth for not liking that song. Unless of course, she only meant the Counting Crows cover with Michelle Branch singing "Mmmm... bop bop bop" ever 6 seconds. That version makes me want to break things. ;D
Aruhgulah Apr 29th 2011 2:00PM
Yeah, the ORIGINAL "Big Yellow Taxi" from Joni Mitchell is just awesome, and that's what I was thinking of when I submitted the shot. Poor Elizabeth, not liking the old classics...
MattKrotzer Apr 29th 2011 2:16PM
Even the hidden track version on Counting Crows' album was good. The version they released to the radio was terrible, though.
Aaron Apr 29th 2011 2:48PM
Well she did toss a "Damn hippies!" in there. D:
ctishman Apr 29th 2011 11:05AM
Unfortunately, the Counting Crows version ruined Joni Mitchell's version forever by proxy. All affections formerly assigned to this version are to be forwarded to 'A Case of You'.
arawn.chernobog Apr 29th 2011 11:17AM
Hey hey...
Us Dwarves just like to hunt the occasional truckload of panthers, raptors, tigers, crocolisks, mammoths, shoveltusks, elleks and so on and so forth, you don't see us cutting down jungles for it.
Good day, sir. *puts on his baby seal top hat and walks away*
Andostre Apr 29th 2011 11:30AM
I'd think that if a Dwarf has concerns about damage to the environment, the damage must be pretty severe!
Dreyja Apr 29th 2011 11:31AM
Best Hair In Game!
All hail the flippy-braids of DHOOM. ;)
Odin Apr 29th 2011 11:35AM
Clearly this dwarf has been exiled from Ironforge for her beliefs. Not only is she an environmentalist, but a pacifist as well. How else can you explain the fact that the forest isn't strewn with goblin bodies?
Aruhgulah Apr 29th 2011 2:02PM
Er, that area DID get strewn with Venture Co. Goblin bodies shortly after this shot was taken. Revenge was MINE.
hillbillyrod Apr 29th 2011 11:42AM
Just another reason why taurens should not be horde. Seriously, they should hang out with the NE, and W. They do in most of the game. Except for factions. Nature loving taurens as horde has always been a bad idea for me. I know lore. But how long is a honor debt last. Till the only green place is around TB.
Aruhgulah Apr 29th 2011 3:28PM
If you play a new tauren character, at one point you get told that the Horde are falling to dark ways, and that it's up to the Tauren to point the way back to the light (I'm paraphrasing here, I don't remember the exact wording). I've long wondered why such a peaceful race as the Tauren are in with the orcs (who came in wanting to take over the world) and the undead (who want to make everyone alive undead)...but if the Tauren are trying to redeem the Horde and set an example for them to follow, well...
Artificial Apr 29th 2011 4:16PM
The Tauren are a very Horde-like race, culturally. To the extent you don't think so, you're not really understanding the lore. They ought to get along with night elves, this is true, but they're very Horde-like culturally and very unlike the Alliance races. The fact that the Alliance and the Horde are at war does not change the fact that Tauren are quite Horde-like, it just makes the conflict between these groups that really ought to get along well together more tragic. For that matter, orcs, with their shamanistic, nature-loving nature, ought to get along better with night elves than humans do, but there are some huge, obvious historical reasons why that ain't going to be the case any time soon. But that aside, forget the honor-debt. Even without it, it ought to be very obvious that the Tauren would be more at home with the Horde than the Alliance. You don't really understand the Horde if you think otherwise. And possibly have some misconceptions about the Tauren as well.
@Aruhgulah: Part of the reason you have trouble with the lore is because you've distorted it with hyperbole. The Tauren don't see either the orcs or the undead the way you do. They know them better than that.
Aruhgulah Apr 29th 2011 10:45PM
Artificial, that's exactly what Medivh says in Black Morass; he opens the portal for the orc horde to come in and take over the world. That Thrall had different ideas is a credit to Thrall, but doesn't change the original intent of the orc horde invasion.
And for the Undead, one only has to play through the Worgen starting area (including their leader's total disregard of Horde orders)...and see the total destruction they've wreaked in Southshore/Hillsbarad...AND play thru the Wrathgate AND play the undead starting area (I made it to level 10 before giving up in total disgust). You have way too long a way to go to convince me that the Undead want anything less than all living beings as undead, too.
G0rehowl Apr 29th 2011 12:24PM
Goblins not eco friendly? Such false accusations make me want to vomit with rage! Obviously those are the hot new goblin g-Tree nano. 90% smaller, can hold 10,000 songs, requires no rakeing in the fall, no water or feeding and it won't steal all your cabondioxide and credit card information when you're not looking like those other pesky trees! When you buy and g-tree we even throw in free orcs to take away your old one! What a deal! Right? Of course! Such ungrateful dwarfs should leave the tree business to the people who share their colour like Goblins or Orcs, the most green friendly people around.
wilson.jen Apr 29th 2011 1:58PM
Except those aren't the goblins who joined the Horde, are they? Those are the same clear-cutting Venture Co. goblins who have always been in STV, I think.
Aruhgulah Apr 29th 2011 2:08PM
That's what I thought, too -- but there's a Horde settlement right next to this. If you go into Azshara, you'll see Gallywix's pleasure palace...right next to a Horde-goblin-run strip mine. And out the back door of Ogrimmar, the goblins are busy clear-cutting THAT forest on the Horde's behalf...
I'm not a raving environmentalist, but waste & unnecessary damage to the environment gets me angry every time (IRL, that is. In game, it's just pixels, but still RP-fueled-maddening about how the Gobs seem to be laying waste to some of the loveliest places in Azeroth).
Dreyja Apr 29th 2011 3:15PM
Though, you have to admit that the horde gobbo's aren't any different.
Artificial Apr 29th 2011 4:21PM
@Dreyja: Nor the Alliance's dwarves or humans. All of them exploit natural resources, sometimes on grand scales, and transform the environment (arguably, destroy) in the process. It's just when humans do it, it's necessary, when goblins do it, it's obviously unnecessary and horrible.
Artificial Apr 29th 2011 4:31PM
Listen to the environmental concerns of dwarves? That actually makes a lot on sense, realistically speaking. The environmental movement didn't really get going until there was a lot of environmental devastation by the culture that spawned it. There would be no Rachel Carson if there was no DDT. To the extent environmentalism exists in Azeroth, its most likely place to start, and its most violently enthusiastic supporters, ought to be goblins, followed by dwarves. It ought not really exist, or at best be a kind of low-level respect for nature without even thinking in terms of large-scale consequences, among races that have never engaged in widespread environmental destruction, as such things only arise in response to this. Non-goblin/dwarven/human DEHTA members don't really make a lot of sense, but a goblin-spawned version of DEHTA would be quite realistic.